Do You Do Things Like a Girl or Do You Do Things #LikeAGirl?
When asked to do something like a girl what would you do? Would you start running like you were wearing heels and worried about messing up your hair? Or would running like a girl mean giving it your all? The feminine product company, Always pinpoints the problem society has with, “Doing something like a girl.” The ad shows many different people asked to run, and throw like a girl. Older generations followed the stereotype in the commercial of doing something “like a girl”. The pathos appeal that Always is trying to debunk the stereotype of doing something #LikeAGirl. Younger generations stepped forward. Always shows that once girls start puberty their confidence goes down the drain. …show more content…
Their room becomes pink and their lives begin to revolve around princesses, makeup, and what their bodies look like as soon as they hit puberty. “Confidence plummets during puberty” is one of the excerpts that shows up on the screen during many Always ads. Everyone knows that the start of puberty is a girls most vulnerable time during their lives. During this time for me I felt as though I was bad at everything I did. I was not motivated to keep trying the best I could in school, sports, in anything because I did not have the reassurance that if you keep trying or keeping going you will get better. Seventy-two percent of girls feel as though society limits them. (Always #LikeAGirl, June 2014) As girls start and go through puberty hurtful things such as, being told that they are weak or getting compared to someone else affects them deeper than any other time in their lives. Beginning puberty in today’s world creates a huge snowball affect. Teenage girls begin to live through what society tells women, “women are meant to be the damsel in distress; never the hero, the best women are stay at home moms, women are quieter than men and not meant to speak out.” (Health Guidance, 2016) There is a constant analyzation that teenage girls do of themselves, there is a constant comparison of themselves and what society tells them they can and cannot do. Young ladies are “already trying to figure themselves out.” (Always #LikeAGirl, June 2014) In this ad a girl reacts to a question asked about how ten to twelve year olds feel when they are put down using the phrase “like a girl” in societies standards. She states that it probably does not make the young girls feel good about themselves because they are being targeted about one thing that they really cannot change and that is their sex. There are such high standards that girls have to live up to try to beat the stereotype and for some reason just giving their
When asked to do something like a girl what would you do? Would you start running like you were wearing heels and worried about messing up your hair? Or would running like a girl mean giving it your all? The feminine product company, Always pinpoints the problem society has with, “Doing something like a girl.” The ad shows many different people asked to run, and throw like a girl. Older generations followed the stereotype in the commercial of doing something “like a girl”. The pathos appeal that Always is trying to debunk the stereotype of doing something #LikeAGirl. Younger generations stepped forward. Always shows that once girls start puberty their confidence goes down the drain. …show more content…
Their room becomes pink and their lives begin to revolve around princesses, makeup, and what their bodies look like as soon as they hit puberty. “Confidence plummets during puberty” is one of the excerpts that shows up on the screen during many Always ads. Everyone knows that the start of puberty is a girls most vulnerable time during their lives. During this time for me I felt as though I was bad at everything I did. I was not motivated to keep trying the best I could in school, sports, in anything because I did not have the reassurance that if you keep trying or keeping going you will get better. Seventy-two percent of girls feel as though society limits them. (Always #LikeAGirl, June 2014) As girls start and go through puberty hurtful things such as, being told that they are weak or getting compared to someone else affects them deeper than any other time in their lives. Beginning puberty in today’s world creates a huge snowball affect. Teenage girls begin to live through what society tells women, “women are meant to be the damsel in distress; never the hero, the best women are stay at home moms, women are quieter than men and not meant to speak out.” (Health Guidance, 2016) There is a constant analyzation that teenage girls do of themselves, there is a constant comparison of themselves and what society tells them they can and cannot do. Young ladies are “already trying to figure themselves out.” (Always #LikeAGirl, June 2014) In this ad a girl reacts to a question asked about how ten to twelve year olds feel when they are put down using the phrase “like a girl” in societies standards. She states that it probably does not make the young girls feel good about themselves because they are being targeted about one thing that they really cannot change and that is their sex. There are such high standards that girls have to live up to try to beat the stereotype and for some reason just giving their